Avionics Embedded Software Engineer II
Inversion Space Company · Playa Vista, CA, United States
This employer recently closed a federal science award ($3.6M) in 2024 — funded companies hire ahead of their postings. Inversion Space Company's funding and open roles · all recently funded employers.
About the role
Inversion Space Company is hiring an Avionics Embedded Software Engineer II to develop flight control software for its hypersonic reentry vehicles, spanning hardware interfaces through mission-critical flight applications. The role reports to the Director of Engineering, Avionics, and includes designing embedded software for flight computers and avionics subsystems, writing high-reliability C/C++ for real-time aerospace environments, developing board support packages/HAL/bootloaders/device drivers, board bring-up on processors and FPGAs, designing vehicle communication architectures (DDS, CoAP), running HIL verification campaigns, and supporting flight testing and mission operations. Requires a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field; 2+ years in aerospace, defense, robotics, or high-reliability systems; strong C/C++; experience with bare-metal, RTOS, or embedded Linux; embedded communication protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, RS-422/-232/-485); Python for automation/tooling; and the ability to obtain a U.S. Secret/Top Secret security clearance.
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